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    • #WordlessWednesday “Up North”

      Posted at 11:22 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on February 10, 2021

      Mackinaw City, Michigan February 9, 2021. Lower peninsula. Images captured by my cousin, Larry. Thanks cuz! Top Photo: Mackinac Bridge. Center: Sculpture of a fountain with running water. Bottom: Blue ice building up along the coastline.


      Unashamed of self-promo today, I’m sticking in a plug for one of my books that takes place “Up north.” This book is actually dedicated to Larry and his family. Imagine Jude, Terra, and their kids viewing this in Secret Santa’s Rundown Sleigh: A Holiday Romance Novella. A heartwarming two-hour read. Carry on!

      So much for #WordlessWednesdy, huh? Thanks for visiting today. 😃

      Posted in #AmWriting, Secret Santa's Rundown Sleigh, Wordless Wednesday | 10 Comments | Tagged Lower Northern Michigan, Mackinac Bridge, Mackinaw City, Mary J McCoy-Dressel, Michigan Winter 2021, Up North in Michigan
    • Another New One~ Secret Santa’s Rundown Sleigh: A Holiday Romance Novella

      Posted at 9:25 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on October 1, 2019
      Mary J McCoy-dressel, featured image blog post Secret Santa's Rundown Sleigh, holiday romance novella

      I’m back with another book releasing on the same day as my cowboy. Be sure to check out the bit of information I shared about this novella at the end of the post. Thanks!

      Two More Days!

      Coming October 3, 2019

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      Secret Santa’s Rundown Sleigh

       

      Mary J McCoy-Dressel, single title holiday romance novella, Christmas, Northern Lower Michigan, Holiday romance, Mackinaw City, Mackinac Bridge, Up North

       

      Why does a stroke of bad luck happen now while on her way to Mackinaw City, Michigan on a blustery weekend? Two days before Christmas, Terra Westbrook and her young daughter have nowhere to stay. How can she convince her child that Santa will find her while sleeping in their car in a gas station parking lot—if they don’t die from hypothermia first? For her child’s sake, she accepts an invitation of a warm home from a resident in the village, but Terra soon learns, the kind person had no right to offer. However, she never expects the homeowner to be a lonely widower who hides tenderness and a big secret under his hard-hearted exterior.

      Jude Overton isn’t interested in a relationship let alone a wife. He tried marriage once. Sometimes his heart still aches. Now, if only his sister would get the message to stop matchmaking him with single women. His life is complete raising his daughter. He’s doing the best he can to make her happy. Jude accepts this as enough until he gazes into a stranger’s melancholy eyes that hold an unspoken yearning. As the big day rolls around, he expects it’ll be just another day like the past five Christmases as a single dad, but maybe this year, he wants his sister to ignore his wishes.

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      I hope you’ll like something a little different from me this time. šŸ’•

      Guess what? This one isn’t a western romance. Don’t fret. I gave our hero horses. He needs a horse to pull his ā€œrundownā€ sleigh! This one is a feel-good holiday romance novella—a two-hour read and a single title. The heat level in this little tale is toned down and not steamy like my other books and exactly what I wanted for this story. However, it does contain kissing, mild cursing, and alcoholic beverages.

      Last year while I reminisced with one of my cousins ā€œup north,ā€ I had the idea for this story, and I ran with it until the end. šŸ™‚

      Mackinac Bridge, Northern Michigan, snow, ice, winter in Michigan, Mary J McCoy-Dressel

      Mackinac Bridge

      Oh, and it takes place in my home state in a small village where, as a child, I visited my grandma, aunts and uncles, and cousins quite often in the summer and sometimes in the winter. Although, I never met anyone like my hero while there. I remember Christmases up north and staying at my cousins house with five quilts on the bed because the only heat up there floated up through vents in the floor. Seriously, five quilts!

      From there, it’s takes less than forty-five minutes to drive to the Mackinac Bridge–“Mighty Mac or Big Mac, if there isn’t a blizzard. Some of my cousins still live in and around the small village in Northern Lower Michigan so I never named the village in the book. Terra tells her little girl a story about her grandma while there. That story is true. Maybe, or likely, it’ll pop up in an excerpt.

      Thank you for reading. 😊

       

       

      Heart cup image credit: Pixabay JillWellington

      Posted in #AmWriting, New Release | 6 Comments | Tagged Another New One~ Secret Santa's Rundown Sleigh: A Holiday Romance Novella, feel-good holiday romance novella, holiday romance novella, Mackinac Bridge, Mackinaw City, Mary J McCoy-Dressel, Michigan, Secret Santa's Rundown Sleigh, two-hour read, Up North
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